Wish I Still Smoked Cigarettes

The song that lured us to buy Ronnie Dunn’s latest album was “Wish I Still Smoked Cigarettes,” which is a metaphor for longing for his younger self. Ronnie Dunn is one of my favorite singer/songwriters because he writes and sings about whatever I seem to be going through at the time.

I love this verse:

We were talking about where we gonna goInstead of talking bout where we’d beenWe’d ride around the lake and make those plansStill had the world in the palm of our hands

And this one, too:

I wish I still drove a muscle carHorses rumbling under the hoodFlying past the welcome sign under the starsWishing I could leave for good, I swore I would,Every now and then I go back to that neighborhood

Yeah, I relate. Brilliant song!

Ronnie didn’t write this one, but the way he delivers the lyrics, well, he really touches me with where I am in my life now.

Wish I Still Smoked Cigarettes

Luke Laird, Lori McKenna & Barry Dean (BMI)

I wish I still smoked cigarettesLight one up and travel timeWhen a stiff drink and a whispered yesWas enough to light a fire, to feel aliveWish I could go back to those nights sometimes

I wish I still drove a muscle carHorses rumbling under the hoodFlying past the welcome sign under the starsWishing I could leave for good, I swore I would,Every now and then I go back to that neighborhood

(CHORUS)

Wish I still did a lot of things I don’t do anymoreWhen I didn’t know what wasn’t good for meBut I knew everything else for sureI guess what I really miss is the freedom andThe way it felt, the innocenceThat’s what I really meantWhen I saidI wish I still smoked cigarettesI felt more grown up then

We were talking about where we gonna goInstead of talking bout where we’d beenWe’d ride around the lake and make those plansStill had the world in the palm of our handsWe never had a chance, now and then

(CHORUS)

Wish I still smoked cigarettesSomething to calm my nervesWherever you are tonightYou were better than I deserved (I was better than you deserved)Wish I still smoked cigarettesSo I had something to let go up in smoke

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“You make a walk in the park sound like the biggest adventure of all.”

Kathy, a novelist & songwriter, grew up halfway between Disneyland and the beach with a book in one hand and a transistor radio in the other. Wrote her first song with a childhood friend, and they called themselves the “Screamie Birds.”

Novels

Real Women Wear Red

Real Women Sing the Blues

Letters on Balboa Island

The Tom Jones Club

Raining Men

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